The Associated Press
SHERMAN, Texas (AP) - One of four plainclothes detectives to serve a felony arrest warrant in connection with a woman’s stabbing death was critically wounded by a man who then began a seven-hour standoff with law officers. The suspect’s body was found when police stormed his third-floor loft.”
A Frisco policewoman remained in critical but stable condition early Wednesday with gunshots to her right thigh and lower abdomen. The body of Charles Anthony Owen was found at the apartment complex near downtown late Tuesday night, according to Sherman police Sgt. Charles Smith.”
He said that about two hours before the 21-year-old suspect was found dead, officers had entered the building after evacuating it of bystanders and firing tear gas. The standoff ended about 8:30 p.m.”
It was unknown if Owen’s fatal injuries were self-inflicted, Smith said.”
Justice of the Peace Greg Middents told the Sherman/Denison Herald Democrat in Wednesday’s editions that Owen’s body was found in the middle of the loft’s living room floor with a single bullet in his head. Owens was pronounced dead shortly after 9:30 p.m. and his body was taken to the Dallas County Medical Examiners Office for an autopsy.”
Tamara Jobes, an 18-year-old student at The Colony High School, was found early Sunday on the railroad tracks that divide Frisco and The Colony. A railroad conductor reported finding the teen’s body about 4:30 a.m.”
Jobes had been stabbed multiple times, and her death was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner.”
Frisco police Sgt. Gina McFarlin said a warrant had been issued for Owen, who was acquainted with Jobes. Detectives received information that Owen was living at a complex in Sherman. Shots rang out from the third story as officers approached.”
Detective Leah Apple was hospitalized at Wilson N. Jones Medical Center in Sherman, about 60 miles north of Dallas, McFarlin said.”
Apple has been with the Frisco police force since March 2002.”